On 1/30/2013 at 3:55 AM Eliezer Croitoru wrote:

|On 1/29/2013 8:07 PM, Mike. wrote:
|>
|> I implemented the postscreen capability on a small MTA I run for
|> friends and family.  Once I got postscreen configuration producing
the
|> results I wanted, I soon tired of watching the detailed maillog to
see
|> how postscreen was operating.  So I wrote a quick shell script to
|> summarize the log file and give me an overview of how well
postscreen
|> is working.
|>
|> I offer the script to anyone who would like to use it.   One company
I
|> worked for would not allow open source software into the company
unless
|> there was an explicit license on the software, so I put the BSD
license
|> on the script.
|>
|> You can download the script from here:
|>   http://archive.mgm51.com/sources/pslogscan.html
|
|Thanks Mike.
|
|The concept is really good but I must say it's a script for very small

|logs but in a system that the logs are in sizes of more then 100MB I 
|assume your script will be very slow.
|
|How are you in other scripting languages?
|I have been working with Ruby\Perl\Python\Bash and for me Ruby is the 
|most intuitive and seems like capable of doing this task easily.
|
|Regards,
|--
|Eliezer

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I've tried it on logs up to 40MB, and it ran to completion in around
five seconds.  However, for that test, I copied the log file off the
production mail server and on to a lightly loaded box.





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